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Bobby
Corcoran

Ariana
North

Indian Hills Braves
Junior

Northern Highlands
Highlanders
Senior

Cross Country

Cross Country

Junior, Bobby Corcoran led a 1-2-3 finish for Indian Hills
in the Boys B Division of the Season Opener with teammates, Hee Tae An and Chris Evans. Placing first, Corcoran ran a 16:21 on the September 14 race and continued
to lead the Braves team in the third Six Flags Wild Safari
Invitational just a few weeks later.
The large race features 130 teams from eight different
states and the Indian Hills Boys won their third straight
Six Flags Invitational in the C Division. The team placed
their first six runners in the top 23 spots with Corcoran
leading the pack with a personal best time of 16:02, again
just ahead of teammates Hee Tae An and Evans who came
in 4th and 5th place. Corcoran, still only a junior, has another two seasons ahead of him as he looks to continue to
lead the Indian Hills Boys to a Championship season.

Ariana North is considered one of the leading female
runners in the state and pulled in a win September 14
during the Bergen County Season Opener in Mahwah
with a time of 18:53 in the A Division. Just this past weekend, North, the Bergen County cross-country defending
champion was also victorious in the Division C race at the
Shore Invitational.
North is a stand-up student athlete, proving to be a
dedicated runner and student at Northern Highlands,
a NJ school that has one of the top HS rankings in the
state. North is on the National Honor Society and also
has earned up to a 4.0 GPA.
A star student athlete, Ariana looks forward to choosing a college with a strong college running program and to
continue her successful Cross Country career.

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COACH OF THE MONTH

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Nick Delcalzo, Hasbrouck Heights’ football head coach

Delcalzo Going Strong After 200
By Edward Kensik
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS Somebody asked Nick Delcalzo if he can win another 100
games.
And he thought about it and
thought that he will be 73
when he would be on the verge
of winning his 300th game. “I
will be 73 when that happens
so no,” said Delcalzo.
But right now he is enjoying working with his assistant
coaches, most who played
for him during his 27 years
as head coach at Hasbrouck
Heights and with the players
that he coaches right now.
And his 2012 team did it in
grand style for him in winning
his 200th game on Sept. 21
with a 40-6 victory at North
Arlington.
For Delcalzo he has won
two state championships and
is hoping to win another one
this season as his team is 50 midway through the season
after defeating Emerson at the
beginning of October.
The most memorable might
be the 2007 team which defeated New Milford at Giants
Stadium. What is memorable about it was the start of
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that season. “It was a magical year,” said Delcalzo who
added at the home opener he
spotted a rainbow. “In the first
game it was the first one on the
new turf, my granddaughter
was born the day of the game
and my son (Kevin) caught
the game-winning touchdown
pass (14-11 over Cresskill.”
For Delcalzo the black and
orange of the Aviators has
been all he has known in terms
of coaching. And outside of
playing club football back in
the 70s for Seton Hall Univer-

sity, it has all he has known in
terms of sports dating back to
junior football. “I’m very fortunate to be in a small town and
I love the community,” said
Delcalzo.
As a student at Hasbrouck
Heights, he played football,
baseball and basketball at the
school until he graduated in
1971.
When he was working for the
United States Army in Bayonne, he received a call from
then head coach Pete LaBarbiera, his coach at Heights, to

be an assistant coach. He had
already coached junior football at Heights while he was
going to Seton Hall.
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assistant coach at Hasbrouck
Heights. He coached mainly
the backfield, but LaBarbiera
wanted him to coach in other areas. “He told me that if
you’re going to be a coach
you have to coach the offensive line,” said Delcalzo about
LaBarbiera who lives in Paramus and they still talk and
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my mentor.”
For the next 10 years he
would be an assistant coach,
mainly for LaBarbiera and
then for a couple of years
to Jeff Sheets. When Sheets
became a vice-principal, the
school district turned to Delcalzo. “They asked me if you
are sure that you want the
job because you have to be
crazy,” said Delcalzo recalling at the time.
When Delcalzo took over
the job in 1985, the pressure
on the Hasbrouck Heights
was intense especially after
the success of LaBarbiera.
In his first two years the Aviators made the state finals,
only to fall to New Milford in
both years including a double
overtime loss in 1985.
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his state title in 1994 when
the Aviators defeated North
Arlington at then Giants Stadium.
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rently also coaches bowling
and golf, but he has coached
pretty much every sport at the
school including 29 years as
head of the Lady Aviators softball team. One of his teams
that he looks fondly on is girls
basketball where the 1979-80
team won a state title, the first
in the sport for the school.
Along with LaBarbiera he
said the biggest influence on
him was his freshman basketball coach at Hasbrouck
Heights in Danny Morrow. “He
really taught me about the
fundamentals of sports,” said
Delcalzo.
For his success he gives a
lot of credit to his wife, Gloria, who has supported him
through the ups and downs.
He even said that he helped
drive his girls basketball players to Paterson to play an AAU
team during the summers of
his coaching years.
And he will never forget
when one principal told him
one time. “When the football
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COACH OF THE MONTH

A celebratory soak from his team after his 200th win.

school,” said Delcalzo.
Over the years several of
his former players have come
back to coach like current assistant coach Rocco Minichiello to help him and the Hasbrouck Heights continue the

fine football tradition that
has dated back for several
decades. “I’m very fortunate
that the players come back
to coach and all the kids are
great,” said Delcalzo. “That is
what keeps me going.”

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
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By
Jessica Quas
Northern Highlands and DwightEnglewood captured the large and small
girls’ team titles in the 2012
Bergen County Girls Tennis
Tournament on Sunday, September 30.
Northern Highlands won
the large schools team crown
with 17 points while defending champion Ramapo was
the runnerup with 12 points.
Madison Hite wan the third
singles bracket while the
Lady Highlanders swept the
doubles title. The top doubles
team of Sophia Annitti and
Maya Borowczak along with

the No. 2 tandem of Molly
Danzig and Danielle Tantillo
padded the scoring column
with the maximum number of
points.
Senior Alexis Colas claimed
the second singles crown as
Dwight-Englewood edged Pascack Hills 17-15 for the small
schools team title. Her teammate, Samantha Balanevsky,
who had won three straight
BCT titles at second singles,
dropped into the third bracket
to pick up her fourth county
championship. Jackie Herssens teamed with Leah Primak
to win the first doubles title
while Shereen Al-Sawwaf and
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Ramhorst Blasts PV
to Silver Division Title

By
Jessica Quas
Kristina Langan
tied the Wayne
Hills record in the
balance beam when the Lady
Patriots defeated Clifton
100.95-89-425. The sophomore earned a score of 9.35
from the judges to match
the mark set in 2003 by current Pascack Regional head
coach Jenny Ortiz. Langan
added a fi rst place effort in
the vault with a score of 9.4
while her teammate Courtney Conforth placed fi rst
in the fl oor exercise with a
score of 8.7 as Wayne Hills
improved to 4-2.
Ramapo edged Ridgewood
108.825-107.725
despite
a strong effort by the Maroonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Yurina Harada who
claimed the all-around title
with a point total of 37.22
that included the fi rst place
score of 9.325 in the balance
beam. Ramapo received fi rst
place performances from
Shara Gipson in the uneven
bars (9.325) and vault (9.5)
along with Kayla Yosif in the
fl oor exercise (9.425).
Harada recorded a clean
sweep to highlight Ridgewoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 109.25 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 104.25 victory over Pascack Regional.
She claimed the all-around
title with 38.05 points that
included fi rst place scores
in the balance beam (9.4),
fl oor exercise (9.65), vault
(9.6) and uneven bars (9.4).

By
Jessica Quas
Pascack
Valley
captured the Silver Division title in
the Bloomfield Tournament,
defeating Bloomfield, J.P. Stevens and Marlboro. In their
next dual matchup, the Indians
rolled to a 2-0 triumph over
Fort Lee as senior co-captain
Chantel Ramhorst spiked 13
kills. Setter Danielle Bonnett
directed the attack, distributing 18 assists while Amanda
Patalano scooped up 14 digs
as Pascack Valley upped its
overall record to 5-2.
Amanda
Rachel
Garcia
spiked nine kills to spur
Tenafly to a 25-9 victory over
Garfield in the fi nals of the

Tenafly Tigers Tournament.
Caitriona Rafferty directed the
attack, distributing 11 assists
as the second seeded Tigers,
who defeated third seeded
Dwight-Englewood 25-14 in
the semifi nals while Meagan
Goodfriend scooped up a dozen assists.
Immaculate Heart Academy
competed in the ASICS Challenge in Chicago. The Blue
Eagles defeated York (IL) 2-1,
winning games of 25-15, 1925 and 28-26, Lone Peak (UT)
2-0, posting wins of 25-15, 2624, Downers Grove South (IL)
2-0 with scores of 27-25 and
25-22. The Blue Eagles lost to
a pair of Wisconsin schools,
Pius XI 2-1 and Catholic Memorial 2-0.

Ramsey overcame an outstanding effort at the net
by Ridgefield Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irene
Kontogiannis who spiked 27
kills as the Rams rallied to a
2-1 victory over the Scarlets,
winning by scores of 23-25,
25-16 and 26-24. Madeline
McCormack slammed 10
kills, Kathryn Mazzilli dished
off nine assists and Juliann
Kalksma had eight digs.
River Dell remained undefeated after 11 dual matches
by routing Westwood 2-0 on
scores of 25-10 and 25-16.
Kalette deMarrais set up the
attack, distributing 11 assists while Mary Maccabee
slammed seven kills and
Sarah Recanati picked up
seven digs.

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